2025 Absolute Cinema

Frances Hadley
Visual and Other Tossups

Round	Packet	#	Category	Answer	Buzzpoint	Value	First	Top 3	Rank	Rebound
1	1	1	Written	The *Sound of Music*	151	10			9	✓
1	1	2	Written	Florida	83	10		✓	2
1	1	3	Written	France	106	10			7
1	1	7	Written	Sunday	113	10			10
1	1	8	Written	baseball players	157	10			12	✓
1	1	11	Written	presidential assassinations	52	15		✓	2
1	1	13	Written	Turner	36	15		✓	3
1	1	15	Written	Kurt Vonnegut	148	10			9
1	1	17	Visual	The *Ballad of Buster Scruggs*	7	0
1	1	18	Visual	John Boorman	4	10			4
1	1	19	Visual	*Crank*	7	10		✓	3
1	1	20	Visual	Hungary	0	20	✓	✓	1
2	2	8	Written	Uganda	25	15		✓	3
2	2	11	Written	shoeshiner	71	15		✓	2
2	2	20	Visual	*Force Majeure*	5	10			4
3	3	1	Written	Gordon Willis	69	15	✓	✓	1
3	3	3	Written	The *Host*	124	10			11
3	3	4	Written	Castle	48	15		✓	3
3	3	6	Written	reporters	44	-5
3	3	8	Written	concentration camps	98	10	✓	✓	1
3	3	9	Written	James Mason	68	-5
3	3	11	Written	Deschanel	106	10			12
3	3	12	Written	Preston Sturges	132	-5
3	3	14	Written	film	46	15		✓	2
3	3	20	Visual	*Funny Games*	2	-5
4	4	5	Written	Renata Adler	143	10		✓	3
4	4	9	Written	*42nd Street*	148	10			6
4	4	12	Written	lovers	148	-5
4	4	15	Written	Luis Buñuel	89	10			4
4	4	17	Visual	*Y tu mamá también*	7	10			5
4	4	18	Visual	Iceland	2	15		✓	3
4	4	20	Visual	Ip Man	7	10			5
5	5	2	Written	*Picnic at Hanging Rock*	129	10			10
5	5	8	Written	Austria	15	15	✓	✓	1
5	5	10	Written	Tatsuya Nakadai	121	10			6
5	5	12	Written	*Fantastic Planet*	135	10			5
5	5	13	Written	symphonies	83	10		✓	3
6	6	3	Written	*True Grit*	131	10			9
6	6	6	Written	Death	21	15	✓	✓	1
6	6	9	Written	Europe	161	10			10	✓
6	6	10	Written	David Lynch	44	15	✓	✓	1
6	6	11	Written	The Gill-Man	130	10			9
6	6	13	Written	*Gandhi*	93	10			9
6	6	16	Visual	*Lady Snowblood*	7	10			4
6	6	17	Visual	banks	3	-5
6	6	19	Visual	Vittorio Storaro	6	10			5
6	6	20	Visual	*Out of the Past*	2	15	✓	✓	1
7	7	1	Written	Jean Cocteau	106	10		✓	3
7	7	2	Written	fashion shows	153	10			10	✓
7	7	3	Written	Ian McEwan	82	10			5
7	7	5	Written	*Taste of Cherry*	82	-5
7	7	8	Written	Barbra Streisand	132	10			8
7	7	9	Written	*Three Colours: Red*	81	15	✓	✓	1
7	7	10	Written	walking	87	10		✓	3
7	7	11	Written	*Pusher*	121	10			4
7	7	12	Written	Eadward Muybridge	62	15		✓	3
7	7	17	Visual	Robert Bresson	0	20	✓	✓	1
7	7	19	Visual	Czech	2	15	✓	✓	1
7	7	20	Visual	strangers	1	15	✓	✓	1
8	8	1	Written	*Caligula*	85	10			6
8	8	2	Written	Jennifer Lopez	87	10			10
8	8	3	Written	Russian	88	10			10
8	8	5	Written	rabbis	156	10			9
8	8	6	Written	Klondike Gold Rush	78	15			4
8	8	7	Written	Stan Brakhage	24	15	✓	✓	1
8	8	9	Written	Shinya Tsukamoto	93	15	✓	✓	1
8	8	12	Written	Qatsi trilogy	130	10			13
8	8	14	Written	Canada	100	10			6
8	8	15	Written	Rajasthan	145	10		✓	3
8	8	16	Visual	Roberto Rossellini	7	10			4
8	8	17	Visual	The *Secret in their Eyes*	7	10			4
8	8	19	Visual	Céline Sciamma	4	10		✓	3
8	8	20	Visual	The *Guest*	7	10		✓	2
9	9	1	Written	Josey Wales	145	10			10
9	9	2	Written	Roscoe Arbuckle	131	10			11
9	9	5	Written	Wallace Shawn	116	-5
9	9	6	Written	Mae West	67	15			7
9	9	7	Written	Ryūnosuke Akutagawa	122	10			8
9	9	8	Written	Mexico	136	10			5
9	9	9	Written	Brigitte Bardot	81	10		✓	2
9	9	10	Written	Lena Horne	56	15			4
9	9	11	Written	drunk	83	15		✓	2
9	9	12	Written	Johnson	39	15			4
9	9	13	Written	Haiti	126	10			6
9	9	14	Written	The *Celebration*	112	10		✓	3
9	9	16	Visual	*Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World*	7	10			6
9	9	19	Visual	*Sexy Beast*	4	10		✓	3
10	10	1	Written	*Shoah*	98	10	✓	✓	1
10	10	4	Written	daughters	104	10		✓	3
10	10	6	Written	fish	143	10			6
10	10	8	Written	Cannes	116	-5
10	10	9	Written	Terence Davies	65	15		✓	2
10	10	10	Written	The *Marriage of Figaro*	150	10			5	✓
10	10	11	Written	*Weekend*	69	15	✓	✓	1
10	10	12	Written	Anita Ekberg	147	10		✓	2
10	10	13	Written	Sri Lanka	93	-5
10	10	16	Visual	Jesse Eisenberg	7	10			5	✓
10	10	17	Visual	The *Souvenir*	4	10	✓	✓	1

Frances HadleyVisual and Other Tossups

Frances Hadley
Visual and Other Tossups